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Debian is a community-driven GNU/Linux distribution which provides a large range of packages and supports a large range of architectures. It strongly focuses on free software. It has several derivatives, notably Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

I probably did some really trivial mistake but somehow I can't figure out where is the problem.
until now I had my debian vps running with few virtual hosts using one domain and several subdomains.
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I am not an experienced linux user, but have bought a chromebook and am now installing crouton. I ran into a problem for which I couldnt find a solution using google or SE. This SE seemed to have the ...

I have an old computer which I upgraded the GPU to Mobility Radeon HD 5430 Series, I just installed the modules for Debian Wheezy, but now my screen-saver doesn't work anymore, when I come back to the ...

I'm setting up a server running Debian Jessie with some applications like iptables firewall, fail2ban, openvpn, apache, ...
The iptables firewall is configured in the way, that it logs every packet ...

I've just installed debian wheezy on an old laptop (using the xfce4 desktop environment via debian-live-7.7.0-amd64-xfce-desktop.iso). I don't intend to use it as an office machine, so I decided to ...

I really hate the look of all the desktop environments officially supported by Debian 7. I also really really like the look of KDE Plasma 5. Unfortunately Debian seems to only support KDE 4, and it ...

I am interested in mounting a firmware image and browsing its contents. I attempted this with the mount command but received some errors ("you must specify filesystem type"). However I think there may ...

Using Iceweasel since three years on my Debian (today Wheezy), I noted that the browser became very slow since one month.
The slowness is not when I open the application but only for the page load in ...

We're having a small issue with our Beagle Bone Blacks. Since they do not come with a RTC battery, when they lose power, the hardware clock gets messed up. I need a simple and clean way of syncing the ...

I did an apt-get update/upgrade today and my Subversion is giving me grief now.
I am still a new user with debian so i wan not aware that sometimes a reboot is required after one of these updates, so ...

On Debian and Ubuntu is it possible to limit the locales which have to be configured?
I know that /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local and /var/lib/locales/supported.d/en govern which locales are being ...

I am running Debian Wheezy on a BananaPi.
I just compiled the kernel and the keyboard was working in terminal(if it's called that way).
However, after I installed a dekstop interface using "apt-get ...

I am a newbie to the world of Linux Containers. I looked at quite a few webpages, wikipedia and checked out the questions at stackexchange but without any answers. Maybe my 'keyword fu' is not strong ...

I have on my Debian en eth0-interface and I need the interface to listen to other IP's.
I know I can create it with the following command
ifconfig eth0:1 10.10.10.20/24
With this command everything ...

I just installed the debian 7 wheezy, but WiFi is not working.
I visited the debian wiki pages but they have already mentioned there that the broadcom chip BCM43142, 4e4:4365 is not supported by the ...

I really don't know how the Debian maintainers check for all the bugs in every release of Debian, but isn't it the case that if all codes for every package have been patched up and tested for all CPU ...

I am attempting to build a c++ project and package it in .deb format. I am able to successfully create a .deb package; however, it includes files that I do not want contained in the package. How can I ...

My OS is debian7.8. I have found that there is a broken package. How can I remove it completely and install new package?
# apt-get install vim
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree ...

After updating my Debian jessie laptop yesterday, the mute/unmute button stopped working. The volume up/down buttons work and I can mute the sound but when I press the mute button again to un-mute, ...

I've got a Raspberry Pi running OpenHab for my home automation. OpenHab has a designer that can configure the system. Up to now I've been running NetATalk on the Pi, sharing the files to my Mac which ...

I've been converting a bunch of mp4 files to dvd format with movie-to-dvd (from videotrans).
Under the hood videotrans just uses mplayer. The mplayer command that causes this error is this:
mplayer ...

I migrated from Arch to Debian(wheezy) recently.
Since Debian was still using sysVinit, I migrated to systemd, but following this.
The system booted after a long init, using fallback LSB scripts for ...

I have built a customized Debian distribution for my client who are using my POS software. I install it to run the PHP Based Software in their machine as localhost. I am using two installer for this ...

I was using console-only version of Debian (amd64) for some time, but I got tired and installed GNOME desktop. Then I installed also KDE-full. sudo apt-get install kde-full. I updated default DE to ...

I'm looking to add a personal key for an apt repo to a netinstall disc which would require end users to not have to install it. I'm using simple-cdd to generate the build, so wrapping it into a .deb ...

I followed these instructions (somewhat) on configuring two instances of Apache -- we have internal apps and third party programs (WordPress, etc) running on same VM so for security and performance ...

The server is running Debian 7 Wheezy without systemd.
I have a user in Debian with Perlbrew installed into their home directory. The user is running a Mojolicious app. In order for the app to work, ...